Healing with Poisons Potent Medicines in Medieval China

Healing with Poisons Potent Medicines in Medieval China

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At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's formative era of pharmacy (200-800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious devote...

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Main Author: Liu, Yan (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Seattle University of Washington Press 2021
Subjects:
Asian history
History of medicine
Asian Studies, China, Medical History, history of medicine, Poison, Medicine, Drug, Alchemy, Technology, Tang, Empire, Daoism
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